11.Apr.2015
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Amiga 30th Anniversary: Charity Dinner Event (August 2nd, Peterborough)
After Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Mountain View (USA), the UK's Peterborough will be the third location hosting an anniversary event celebrating the Amiga's 30th birthday. On August 2, the organisers plan to "celebrate all things Amiga, alongside many of the key figures who made it all possible" - RJ MIcal is announced as one of the special guests. (cg)
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11.Apr.2015
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Java-Tutorial: Project Amiga Juggler
In an detailed tutorial, Java programmers are dmonstrated, how to implement the Amiga Juggler by themselves. All steps are programmed again: The tutorial starts with the development of a mini-raytracer rendering the frames which later will be used the animation.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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10.Apr.2015
Johannes Genberg (ANF)
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Swedish print magazine: Amiga Forum 12
The swedish print magazine "Amiga Forum" is published since 2012 and consists of 28 A5 pages, with 12 of them in color. The price is 25 kronor plus shipping. It can be ordered at the title link or at Amigastore.
In this issue you can read about:
- News - is Hyperion bankrupt?
- Other Amiga related news
- Game reviews
- Old useful programs
- Book review - The Amiga book
- Scene fiction short story
- Latest news from from Swedish User Group of Amiga, Safir and the demo scene
- Learn to program Hollywood, part 2
(snx)
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10.Apr.2015
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: 68k-Distribution Aros Vision 2.9.2 / Other versions planned
Version 2.9.2 of the AROS/68k-distribution Aros Vision provided by Olaf Schönweiß (screenshot) includes updates of some programms as well as a new screensaver.
In addition, in future there will be different versions of the distribution. To this version in future a "RTG" will be added. Aros Vision ECS (for real 68k-hardware and FPGA-reconstructions) and Aros Vision X86 (screenshots: EdiSyn, Antyriad) are in development.
The last mentioned distribution is based on the Windows-hosted version of AROS which makes it easier to launch it because you do not have to install it. Disadvantage: So far network and audio support is not included. Other platforms are planned.
Changes of version 2.9.2:
- New structure
- Netsurf updated
- Free Pascal updated
- Theme can be changed in the menu
- MUI-classes updated
- Hollywood-plugins updated
- AppStore-client updated
- Should run faster now
- New: Screensaver
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Tools collection zTools 1.6
Guillaume 'zzd10h' Boesel has updated his commercial tools collection "zTools". Version 1.6, which is exclusively distributed on the Amistore, includes updates of SysMon, WebReplay and of the zTools-installer as well as bug fixes of FastView, aTunes, FastNote and CPUDock.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Apr.2015
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Platform classic: Jay the Miner
"Jay the Miner" is a clone of the 8-Bit classic game Manic Miner. The game was developed with the editor Backbone and offers 15 levels and two levels of difficulty.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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07.Apr.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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History: The 68000 Wars (English)
In his blog "The Digital Antiquarian", Jimmy Maher has started writing an article about the history of the Amiga as well as of the Atari named "The 68000 Wars" (part 2).
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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07.Apr.2015
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Benchmarks: Warp 3D SI on the dem Sam460 and the X1000
During the last few days, AmigaOS 4 users started to collect benchmark results for the recently released commercial Warp 3D drivers for Radeon HD graphic cards. The results are collected and presented on amigans.net, an older result using a Sam440 and the onboard Radeon Mobility chip was provided by Alain Thellier (Wazp 3D) back in 2013.
Two benchmarks are performed, with the exception of Thelliers older test the results were all recorded using the Final Edition of AmigaOS 4.1.
- Quake 3 Timedemo 1: using Hugues 'HunoPPC' Nouvels ioquake3-Portierung (Ioquake3.lha), a resolution of 1280x1024, these Settings and MiniGL 2.20
- Cow 3D (a Warp 3D benchmark from Alain Thellier): When running this, the Buffers should be enabled using the 'b' key, to make sure the Frames don't have to be recalculated by the CPU constantly and you're only benchmarking the graphics performance.
Below you can see the benchmark results published so far, benchmarks with older Radeon graphic cards are not available currently. The listed values mean 'frames displayed per second' (FPS), so the higher the value, the better the result:
Editor's note: In some cases, the users didn't list average values, but FPS ranges. For the sake of simplicity, we used the higher value of the two - the difference is neglegible anyway. The listed values were all provided by AmigaOS 4 users, Amiga-News staff has no means of verifying them. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.Apr.2015
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Web-finding: The contract between Amiga Corp. and Atari, 1983
At atarimuseum.com, a copy as well as scans of the contract are available which concluded Amiga Corp. and Atari. The startup Amiga urgently required additional financial resources to finish its development of the prototype named "Lorraine". Atari would secure its rights to the chips developed by Amiga to use them in its next computer generation.
The published excerpts concentrates on the planned features of Amigas' computer. Some interesting details are hidden in the contract: That the computer should be able to read Apple-disks and their texts. Additionally the programming languages "Lorraine BASIC" and FORTH should be included in the delivery of the computer equipped with 128 KB.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Apr.2015
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Self-made project: Wifi Joystick Adapter 1.0
A Croatian Amiga user has made an adapter which wireless transfers the input of any joystick to the computer (Youtube video, photographs: 1, 2). The receiver is powered by the computer, the transmitter has to be powered via an USB-cable (e.g. a recharger cable for a mobile phone).
For the wireless communication a microcontroller ATMega8 as well as a NRF24L01+ and as development environment Arduino were used. According to the developer there is no delay while playing. He estimates the loss of time is less than 2 milliseconds.
Vurrently the adapter does not work with mice. The author supposes that the reason is the higher amount of data transferred. He will try to solve the problem but so far does not have any approach to a solutions.
Download (source codes and circuit diagram): WiFi Joystick adapter v1.0.rar (537 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Apr.2015
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Trademark recycling: Android smartphones from 'Commodore Business Machines'
According to the Italian Wikipedia (automated translation) the "Commodore" trademark has been acquired by a Massimo Canigiani in 2014. If this is true or what "acquired" actually means is currently unknown to us. According to the EU trademark database, the relevant "Commodore" marks are still owned by Dutch Commodore Holdings B.V. There is a Commodore mark registered in Italy, but it's still assigned to ESCOM.
As Commodore Holdings is still defending the mark aggressively - the organisator of a Crowdfunding effort to reproduce the C64 II cases got a written warning recently - it's safe to assume the situation will become more clear soon.
At least Canigiani seems to be quite confident: He already incorporated a company called "Commodore Business Machines Ltd." in England. Using the official website and a Facebook page he's already advertising his first product: an Android based smartphone sporting a Commodore 'chickenhead' logo. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Workbench distribution: AmiKit 8.4
AmiKit, a Workbench distribution intended for emulated Amigas, is available in version 8.4 now. Changes:
- MUI4 got new pointers - hover your mouse over a link or column separator to see what we are talking about. A number of custom classes have been updated to the latest versions too
- WHDLoad, the ultimate game loader, is now able to update itself! From now on, your old games will always get a fresh support
- System libraries like OpenURL, CodeSet and IconLib have been updated too
- And last, but not least, we've improved Polish and Russian language support in AmiKit. There are more catalogs and better fonts now
(snx)
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05.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Revision 2015: First Amiga demos released
Under the title link pouet.net as well as on scene.org the first productions of the demo party Revision 2015 are available.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 05. Apr. 2015, 18:13] [Comments: 0]
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05.Apr.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: EdiSyn 0.41 (Update)
Marcus Sackrow's text editor EdiSyn for AROS/x86 offers tabs as well as syntax highlighting for C/C++ and Pascal. A list of changes you can find under the title link.
Download: EdiSyn_0.41.lha (3 MB)
Update: (19:30, 06.04.15, snx)
Today, version 0.41 has been released, which introduces syntax highlighting for HTML. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2015
Pascal Papara (ANF)
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AROS: AEROS for Pi beta 10 and beta 8 (full version for Raspberry Pi 1)
Pascal Papara's Linux-based AROS-distribution AEROS for the Raspberry Pi is available for registered users as beta version 10 (changes see below , video of the previous version).
In celebration of Easter beta version 8 which was released in November is available as unlimited version for the Raspberry Pi 1 on IndieGO!-Appstore. That means, the "lx"-command for starting Linux-applications out of AROS is included.
Beta version 10 was adapted to Raspberry Pi 2. On the previous model this version only works with 512 MB RAM (but slowly). If there is less memory available, single parts of the distribution does not work.
Changelog:
- Updated UAE4all2 with AROS/68k kickstart replacement
- Added Quake 3 demo (works only on Pi with 512 MB RAM)
- Added Gimp (very very sluggish on a Pi 1)
- USB-sticks are now auto-mounted when you attach them, no need anymore to run a Linux file manager first
- Added EmulationStation (you need to boot into command line to run it)
- Changed memory split and reduced memory size for AROS (this can be modified by the user) in order to get Quake working with less swapping
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.04.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 4th, 2015:
FlexCat-2.17.lha dev/misc 1.1M MOS Flexible catalogs (C,Asm,Ober...
sgit.lha dev/misc 1.1M OS4 A simple and incomplete git c...
WormWarsMOS.lha game/actio 714K MOS Advanced snake game
Show_Vector_1.3.lha gfx/show 1.4M MOS A Vectorgraphic viewer
ACE-MorphOS.lha misc/emu 1.2M MOS Amstrad CPC/CPC+ Emulator
o2em.lha misc/emu 413K MOS Odyssey^2/Videopac emulator
Icons-for-AmigaOS.lha pix/picon 6.4M AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
MMULib.lha util/libs 637K 68k Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
russian45.lha util/sys 35K 68k Russian language driver v45
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.04.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 4th, 2015:
flexcat.lha dev/mis 1Mb 4.0 Flexible catalogs (C, Asm, E, AR...
sgit.lha dev/uti 1Mb 4.0 A simple and incomplete git client
minigl.lha dri/gra 3Mb 4.0 OpenGL subset 3D API
icons-for-amigaos.lha gra/ico 6Mb 4.0 AmigaOS 4.1 Style Icons ...
dopus4.lha uti/fil 3Mb 4.0 The legendary filemanager
ffmpeg.lha vid/con 19Mb 4.0 Video and audio converter
clipgrab.lha vid/mis 1Mb 4.1 Qt Download videos from YouTube
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2015
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AROS-Archives-Uploads until 04.04.2015
The following archives have been added to AROS-Archives until April 4th, 2015:
bomberman.i386-aros.zip gam 625kb Bomberman Lan
ffmpeg.i386-aros.zip gra/con 15Mb ffmpeg + players + miniPlayer ex...
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 04.04.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups on your harddisk that were not compatible with anything but floppy disks. The following installers have been added until April 4th, 2015:
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Apr.2015
jb (ANF)
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Forum: Moo Bunny announces preliminary closure (Update)
After 18 years, Moo Bunny announced closure. The basically unmoderated forum had been appreciated especially by people who considered other websites to be biased in favour of only one of the different Amiga operating systems. Due to contuinued abuse of the granted freedom, John Shepard closed down Moo Bunny yesterday.
Update: (07:40, 06.04.15, snx)
In another message directed towards the Amiga section, John Shepard does not only repeat the final cause for the forum's closure, but also hints that Moo Bunny might be reactivated in the future:
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Update: (07:40, 06.04.15, snx)
In einer weiteren Mitteilung speziell die Amiga-Sektion betreffend wiederholt John Shepard nicht nur den Anlass, der das Fass zum Überlaufen brachte - den Betrieb eines Darknets durch Ausnutzung einer Sicherheitslücke in der Foren-Software -, sondern stellt auch in Aussicht, dass Moo Bunny nicht für immer geschlossen bleibt:
"Moo Bunny Amiga Section [...] is still valuable enough that someone just tried to steal it. I think that means it's also valuable enough to not stay down forever." (snx)
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04.Apr.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Edgar Vigdal died
Edgar Vigdal has died. On Wednesday the 51-year-old game developer who wrote Amiga classics like Deluxe Galaga and Deluxe Pacman succumbed to a cancer.
Under the name "Warblade" he had continued developing Deluxe Galaga for Windows, Mac OS X and iOS. Additionally he had planned to release a pixel perfect version of Deluxe Galaga named "Deluxe Galaga Reborn". Test versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux can be downloaded under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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04.Apr.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Easter update for Workbench CANDI
On AMIstore of A-EON Technology an update of CANDI is available which is free of charge to all customers that have bought CANDI from AMIStore. The programm creates animated Workbench backdrops using the Compositing-engine. Among others the new version features an Easter theme.
Other updates:
- Automatically switch between CANDI animations by double-clicking on a CANDI icon
- Double clicking on the same CANDI icon switches the Workbench animation off
- CANDI animation goes to sleep if the Workbench goes behind another active screen
- New tooltypes to select LOWCPU option for less capable hardware (removing the need for a LOWCPU CANDI version)
- ResetWB option now works when CANDI is running
- Each CANDI can now be controlled by an external program/utility. (coming soon)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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